California lawsuit questions McCain's Eligibility for Presidency

[Phred42]

Ok - probably nothing will come of it - but it's fun
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California lawsuit questions McCain's Eligibility for Presidency
McCain is not a "natural-born citizen"

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10006

Lawyers for John McCain and the state and national Republican Party on Thursday asked a federal judge in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the candidate's place on California's Nov. 4 ballot.

Markham Robinson of Vacaville, chairman-elect of California's American Independent Party, sued McCain, the GOP and California Secretary of State Debra Bowen on Aug. 11, arguing the presidential candidate's birth 72 years ago today in the Panama Canal Zone means he's not a "natural-born citizen" — a Constitutional requirement to be president.

But lawyers for the GOP and McCain wrote Thursday that Robinson lacks standing to sue and is asking the courts to tread where the Constitution forbids.

Robinson hasn't shown McCain's candidacy causes him any harm, they said: He's neither a presidential candidate himself nor authorized to sue on behalf of his party or party nominee Alan Keyes, and stripping McCain from the ballot won't much improve the party's or Keyes' chances of winning.

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... Federal law says anyone born in the Panama Canal Zone after Feb. 26, 1904, as a child of U.S. citizens is declared to be a U.S. citizen himself or herself. Some have questioned, however, whether this makes McCain a "natural-born citizen," a term the Constitution doesn't define any further; the federal law took effect about one year after McCain's birth, and doesn't say the person's citizenship was considered to have been acquired at birth.

[aquart]

1. Piffle.

[sharesunited]

2. If the effective date of that law is the year AFTER McCain was born, that makes him 105.

I knew it.

[uberllama42]

3. Is this in the right forum?

Has the science board been declared the graveyard for dead issues? I thought everyone agreed months ago that yes, John McCain is allowed to run for president.